Week 40, 2025
Notable sales: Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2025
In the week of Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2025, ArtSell recorded 2,340 auction lots, of which 1,852 sold. The 1,852 sales with a published price total $6,103,478, with a median of $1,188. The top result was Pierre Dunand, “Double porte pliante à six volets”, at $134,818 (Bonhams, Oct 2, 2025). 10 artists set a new high compared with every earlier result in the database.
Top 25 results
- $134,818 (€114,700)
- UK. Athletics I, 2008$124,960
- $105,507 (€90,000)
- IMAGE OF SAMUEL BECKETT, 1980$105,507 (€90,000)
- $102,100
- $73,616 (MX$1,350,000)
- FERRIS BLIGH ST. GEORGE, c.1921$70,338 (€60,000)
- SELF PORTRAIT, c.1919-20$65,649 (€56,000)
- $60,160
- $57,171 (€48,640)
- $48,640
- $48,144 (€40,960)
- $42,126 (€35,840)
- $40,960
- $38,500
- Untitled, 1948$38,100
- $37,514 (€32,000)
- "Rouge Angulaire", 1989$33,665 (€28,715)
- $33,280
- $32,247 (£23,940)
- $30,720
- $28,586 (€24,320)
- $25,577 (€21,760)
- $25,577 (€21,760)
- $25,000
New artist records
The artist’s best price this week exceeded every earlier priced result for them in the ArtSell database (artists with at least three earlier priced results).
| Artist | Work | Price | Previous high |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pierre Dunand | Double porte pliante à six volets | $134,818 | $66,540 (3 earlier) |
| Jules Wabbes | Table Tulipe | $57,171 | $38,313 (28 earlier) |
| Emerson Woelffer | Untitled | $38,100 | $37,500 (359 earlier) |
| Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat | Monumental Vase | $33,280 | $33,135 (48 earlier) |
| José Vives-Atsara | Brackenridge Park, San Antonio, Texas | $25,000 | $11,700 (16 earlier) |
| Elisabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti | Paire de guéridons Isis | $24,072 | $11,893 (17 earlier) |
| Thomas Lawrence | PORTRAIT OF SIR WILLIAM FORBES, 6TH BARONET OF PITSLIGO (1739–1806) | $23,761 | $2,243 (7 earlier) |
| Joe Andoe | Untitled | $19,050 | $10,625 (10 earlier) |
| Jean Pascaud | Cabinet | $16,550 | $7,620 (8 earlier) |
| Paule Leleu | Tapis rectangulaire | $16,550 | $8,190 (3 earlier) |
Most active artists
Artists with the most priced sales this week.
Emerson Woelffer (53 sold · $96.6k)Line Vautrin (42 sold · $236k)Jules Wabbes (22 sold · $135k)Jules Leleu (19 sold · $134k)Nico Verboom (14 sold · $3.9k)Markey Robinson (13 sold · $26.9k)William Lionel Wyllie (11 sold · $2.6k)Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (11 sold · $63.6k)Graham Knuttel (10 sold · $41.5k)Ranko Pudi (10 sold · $441)
Generated from the auction results recorded in ArtSell for sales held Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2025 (by sale date). Prices are converted to USD at the sale-date rate; the original currency is shown in brackets. Results that houses publish later are added as they arrive. ArtSell is a database of auction results; it does not authenticate or value works.